KENNEBUNK — A sport utility vehicle ended up inside a Circle K convenience store in Kennebunk after a woman drove through a glass window Sunday morning.
The accident happened shortly after 11 a.m. at the Irving gas station on Portland Road. No injuries were reported, and no arrests were made.
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The black Lexus driven by Diana Fairbrother, 57, of Kennebunk surged forward from a parking area through a large glass window beside the door, pulling framing from the window.
“Basically, she went right through and hit the display cases,” said Lt. Jay Byron of the Kennebunk Fire Department. “It’s a fairly narrow store and the car was fully inside.”
Byron said the vehicle remained drivable, and was backed out of the store and taken away on a flatbed truck. The driver — there were no passengers — was driven home by police.
Trevor Foss, a cashier at Irving/Circle K, said two other employees were on duty, but no customers were inside at the time of the accident.
“I saw the car buck,” Foss said. “She went to step on the brake but obviously she hit the gas and smashed right through the front windows and all the way through the store to the back of the coolers.”
Foss said Fairbrother was shaken up and apologetic.
“There’s glass everywhere and all the shelves are pushed aside,” Foss said. As for the Lexus, he said, “it had no damage except a little bit to the bumper.”
The store is closed until an engineer determines its structural safety.
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